Tag: love

I always used to laugh when my parents would call me a “jet setter” or “globe trotter” any time I went on a trip or went back and forth between school and Sweden. It seemed like such an exaggeration, because I figured I travel just as much as anyone else I know (at least as much as my friends in Sweden, who seem to be going places all the time). But I will admit that what I did this weekend — flying to Los Angeles from Newark for a long weekend — is definitely worthy of being put in that category. It felt like such a cool, luxurious trip to make, and I’m so grateful I got the chance to do it!

So on Thursday night last week, we took off to Newark Airport to catch the 10PM flight to LA. Being used to long flights and dealing with time differences, the flight wasn’t too bad for me but I was definitely exhausted once we arrived at the hotel at about 2AM. The hotel, where the whole weekend was spent and all the wedding festivities were held, was fantastic; a fancy, industrial-chic, modern hotel in the middle of LA’s Korea Town with a refreshing pool area and a café serving the most delicious matcha lattes (my new favorite hehe).

The wedding part of the weekend was incredible. Between dressing up, having cocktails, eating good food, and celebrating, what really struck me was the intense displays of love and warm sentiments that are (sadly) really not expressed in day-to-day life. Maybe it’s because I was just a child at the last wedding I went to (looking SO CUTE in my bridesmaid’s gown) and couldn’t really reflect on these things then, but I was so moved by the wedding ceremony and the reception that followed even though I hardly knew any of these people (I met the bride merely hours before the wedding ceremony). But it’s not really about necessarily knowing the people, is it? Regardless, seeing anyone proclaim their love to someone in front of all of their family and friends is incredibly impactful. Gotta admit I shed a couple tears. Which probably looked weird to everyone else who was thinking “Who is that girl, even? Why is she crying?”, but who cares.

In addition to attending all of the wedding festivities, we also got some free time to sightsee around LA, which I was really happy about. We walked around Korea Town, we took a bus tour around Beverly Hills and downtown LA (which made me 50% jealous of all of the ridiculously wealthy celebrities and 50% appalled that people live like that when there’s so much poverty in the world), visited the Getty Museum, and took a short trip to Venice Beach where I got to dip my toes in the Pacific Ocean.

All in all, it was the most amazing weekend (not counting the red-eye back to NJ and going straight from the flight to work on Monday morning). I definitely want to go back to California to spend more time there soon!!!